Life Quotes

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Earl Warren

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854

Plunge boldly into the thick of life.

Johann von Goethe

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Cicero

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Dave Barry

Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

J Danforth Quayle

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - So I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann von Goethe

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Albert Einstein

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

Anonymous

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.

Katherine Mansfield

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Thomas Mann

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Gaius Petronius

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

William Orville Douglas

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

George Barrell Cheeve

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Kathleen Norris

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

W. C. Fields

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Erich Fromm

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage